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In that regard, remember the reaction Stockhausen received with his interpretation of 9/11 as a large-scale work of site-specific performance art. Perhaps someone who lives(d) in Arizona can enlighten us re John McCain's stance towards art. I heard James Turrell talk about his work, and I didn't get the impression that his large-scale, site-specific sculptural installation Roden Crater, located outside Flagstaff Arizona, was being blocked by the state of Arizona. Maybe delayed by compliance to assorted codes on occasion, but Turrell in fact was proud of his compliance with the national regulations mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Barry Alpert On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:45:34 -0500, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >John McCain himself, in fact, once attempted to become an artist of >large-scale landscape pieces: he attempted to turn downtown Hanoi into >rubble with high explosives. For some reason the Vietnamese took exception >to the project and shot him down. > >jd > >On Feb 5, 2008 4:17 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Stephen, >> >> Your post reminds me to try to arrange to visit Smithson's Spiral Jetty >> (if >> it's not buried in oil), Walter de Maria's Lighting Field, Donald Judd's >> Marfa, Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, & James Turrell's Roden Crater on my >> next leisurely drive across the southwest USA. >> >> Why not write to John McCain about the problem? Who else would have more >> sway in the southwest at this moment? I'm unable to sort out the inner >> workings of government in Utah (and wouldn't want to, at this remove), but >> I wouldn't be surprised if McCain was aware of the Spiral Jetty. I have >> no >> idea of his aesthetics, however. He'd have to be more sophisticated than >> W(orst). >> >> I wonder why I haven't ever physically positioned myself next to the site- >> specific public sculptures by Nancy Holt and Miriam Schapiro in nearby >> Arlington Virginia. Slides and photos have passed before my eyes, but it >> must be that I can't visualize their respective street addresses. >> >> >> Barry